by - June 19, 2023 12:36 pm
Financial services firm Jefferies estimates student loan payments will cost U.S. consumers $18 billion a month by September. Some economists suggest the hit to household budgets will slow a national…
by - September 29, 2022 1:32 pm
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Thursday (Sept. 29) a lawsuit against President Joe Biden, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and the U.S. Department of Education. The lawsuit claims they…
by - January 22, 2020 12:37 pm
College students in Arkansas who take on debt leave school with an average monthly payment of about $200, a payment that stays with students for an average of more than…
by - October 30, 2019 12:45 pm
As concerns from the nation’s $1.48 trillion student loan bubble continues to grow, default rates for Arkansas students to attend college declined for the sixth consecutive year and is now…
by - October 9, 2018 4:05 pm
Student loan default rates for Arkansas college students declined for the fifth straight year even as the amount of debt owed by current and former college goers nears crisis level,…
by - October 2, 2017 7:11 pm
Arkansas’ contribution to the nation’s massive $1.4 trillion student loan bubble actually got smaller in 2014, moving the state off another “bottom ten” financial ranking of U.S. states with the…
by - August 20, 2015 11:55 am
Arkansas college students, past and present, are carrying student loan debt amounting to $9 billion according to U.S. Department of Education figures provided to the Arkansas Student Loan Authority. As…
by - August 11, 2015 5:39 pm
On Monday, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed increasing federal spending by $350 billion to provide college student debt relief. Here are a few ways to lower student debt for…
by - December 3, 2014 3:39 pm
Student debt has become a trillion dollar problem in 2014 but experts say those on the hook for massive amounts of debt aren’t all 20-something-year-old college graduates or dropouts. “There…
by - September 3, 2014 7:59 pm
As the former director of the Arkansas Employment Security Division (now the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services), and a professor of human resources development for Webster University, I have long…
by - March 6, 2013 5:19 pm
Zeek Miller, a 25-year-old waiter in Northwest Arkansas, hasn’t cashed a tax refund check for the past two years as it has been garnished by the federal government for delinquent…
